[DML] Re: Where are the 397 missing first production Deloreans ??

["Lawrence Lormand" <lawrencesr@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

what is this manifest 10 they refer to in the Vin Listings?
SAMPLE - 1981 538 Dearborn Heights MI Black 5 Speed F Engineering Car 
(BKM Inc., indicated as automatic), Manifest 10



--- In dmcnews@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, Erik Geerdink <dmcerik@...> wrote:
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> I believe they are mostly accounted for.
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>   http://www.dmcnews.com/faq/img/news/n_vinlst.pdf
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>   Many went to Chestnut Fleet Rental.  I'm sure it is possible that 
the first shipment wasn't necessarily the first cars off the line.  
Maybe the build quality on the first few hundred were bad enough that 
they didn't want them to go out to individual customers.  Sounds like 
perfect contenders for leased cars though!
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> cbl1739 <cbl302@...> wrote:
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> And I used to own vin 00570,But how can you start at vin # 500 and 
> call vin # 1897(it should be car # 1397 built and vin 1500 should 
> have been the 1000th car) the 1000th car,and then have vin # 910 on 
> the first load of cars to come off the boat.
> We know the first 150-170 cars or so were not shipped.But what 
> happened after that.Again if you do simple math it suggests that 
Vin 
> # 897 was the first car to be shipped.Sure there could have been a 
> straggler or two before vin 897 that went on the ship,with the 
first 
> shipment,but again how could 396 cars be unaccounted for in early 
> production.
> 
> --- In dmcnews@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, PAUL LEGUTKI <legutki@> wrote:
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> > Looks like Josh Haldeman's car is VIN 909. ChicagoPaul
> > --- cbl1739 <cbl302@> wrote:
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> > > 
> > > Well to partly answer my own question,as i read
> > > along in SSI on page 
> > > 93 it clearly SHOWS Vin 910.M (manual) coming off
> > > the FIRST load of 
> > > Shipped Deloreans coming off the boat,according to
> > > SSI quote:the 
> > > first Deloreans shipped to the US by boat are
> > > unloaded in Long Beach 
> > > California.With a pic of 910 clearly shown,which was
> > > if going by vin 
> > > 897 being the first one being unloaded the 13th car
> > > off the boat 
> > > which is vin 910 as pictured.So that means anything
> > > before vin 897 
> > > was not a shippable car or a nonsellable car. So
> > > were vins 500 
> > > through vins 896 those Black shells(made whole)
> > > since it equals about 
> > > the same amount of preproduction black shells
> > > produced?
> > > 
> > > 
> > [moderator snip]
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